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Declining Discount Rates

Declining Discount Rates is a discounting method in economic evaluation characterized by a rate that decreases over time, reflecting the idea that future costs and benefits should be weighted more heavily the further they are from the present, thereby addressing the ethical and empirical limitations of constant discounting.

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Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls.

Kris N. Kirby, Nancy M. Petry, Warren K. Bickel · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1999 · 1.7K citations

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Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls.

Kris N. Kirby, Nancy M. Petry, Warren K. Bickel · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1999 · 1.7K citations

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Estimating Individual Discount Rates in Denmark: A Field Experiment

Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, Melonie B. Williams · American Economic Review · 2002 · 992 citations · Full text

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Why the Far-Distant Future Should Be Discounted at Its Lowest Possible Rate

Martin L. Weitzman · Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 1998 · 973 citations

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Delay-discounting probabilistic rewards: Rates decrease as amounts increase

Kris N. Kirby, Nino N. Maraković · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 1996 · 927 citations

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Authors

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  1. BG
    Ben Groom

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 904 citations

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  2. ML
    Martin L. Weitzman

    Harvard University, United States

    7 publications · 2.4K citations

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  3. CG
    Christian Gollier

    Toulouse School of Economics, France

    6 publications · 597 citations

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  4. KN
    Kris N. Kirby

    Williams College, United States

    5 publications · 5.1K citations

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    Maureen Cropper

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    5 publications · 490 citations

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Institutions

206

  1. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    890 citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    488 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    494 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    2.2K citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    347 citations

  6. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    265 citations

  7. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    689 citations

  8. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 13 publications · 500 citations

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  3. Journal of Forensic Economics

    JFE · 6 publications · 83 citations

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  4. The Journal of Finance

    5 publications · 153 citations

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  5. American Economic Review

    4 publications · 1.9K citations

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